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I expect to have to make some sacrifices for my religious beliefs. If my church considered it wrong for me to enter another place of worship and that's where an event was being held I would have to seriously consider missing the event. Sure, I would rather everyone else have to violate their beliefs so that I could indulge mine, but that's not what my faith is about to me.

There's a great old gospel song, "This World Is Not My Home" and that's sorta how I see it. I am simply a traveler here, a pilgrim as it were just passing through. If I have to fore go some pleasure or comfort here it's only temporary.

After the discussion that's gone on here I guess I was a bit off in my original post.

I can't speak for others. In fact, the apostle Paul was very clear in his teaching that if something offends a person of another faith the Christian should avoid doing it. There was a big discussion in the early church about eating meat that had been offered to an idol. Paul said that as Christians we did not believe the idol was anything but an inanimate object, and eating meet that had been on the altar of the idol was no big deal. But, he went on to say that if it offends others then we as Christians should not eat it.

Thanks for the dialog, it is much appreciated.

I expect to have to make some sacrifices for my religious beliefs.

Interesting observation. The majority of people want to have equal outcomes for very different choices. The fact is, not all decisions are equal and some will result in a wide variety of outcomes.

This is not a Muslim issue BTW - it happens every day in our lives. We all make personal decisions about a multitude of issues and if my choices don't lead to as fufilling of a life as perhaps someone else has, it's not up to the government to make it level.

Rough ol' world sometimes